1878

born on August 27 in Schönbrunn near Landshut

1901–1905

Studied painting as a master student of Franz von Stuck at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, etching technique with Peter Halm

1905

Graf Schack Prize for the portfolio 'Love
Travels to Italy and Tunisia, then to Paris and Madrid

1910

Villa Romana Prize of the German Artists' Association: one-year stay in Florence

1910–1914

Berlin time
Concentration on graphics and bookplates

1914–1918

War service in Macedonia and France as an observer in a captive balloon

1919–1923

Professorship for a nude class at the Munich School of Applied Arts

1923–1925

Attempt of a new beginning in Spain
Travels to the Canary Islands and Morocco
Examination of El Greco's painting and discovery of the 'magic of color'.

1928–1933

Professor of painting at the State Academy for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig until dismissal without notice due to political denunciations

1933–1945

Retreat to Munich and to the Chiemsee in the 'inner emigration'.
Creation of numerous landscape watercolors as well as drawings for the portfolios 'Zwölf Jahre' (Twelve Years) and 'Eine Abrechnung' (A Reckoning) published after the war; no ban on painting murals, e.g. in Kempten in Allgäu

1946–1951

Rehabilitation by a professorship for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich; appointed honorary member of the Senate of the Academy of Fine Arts

1951

Cultural Prize of the City of Munich (1950)

1958

Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

1963

Schwabing Art Award for Painting Munich

1965

Prize of the International Book Art Leipzig

1971

died on February 1 in Munich